What Syrian Electronic Army did was that they Some how hacked into the Admin panel Of Outbrain and changed the parameters used by CNN, Washington post, The New York Times in their widgets as ‘Hacked by SEA’ Screenshot of Admin panel of Outbrain, shows they were still using the outdated wordpress version: Screenshot of The Recomended post on the websites showing ‘Hacked by SEA’  

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